Around two-thirds of the way into the aged vellum pages of the Voynich manuscript, youll find a line drawing of a bath. Since the manuscript was brought to the publics attention in 1912 — when antique book collector Wilfrid Voynich bought it in Italy — experts from a range of fields have tried their hardest to make sense of it. None have come up with a full cipher for the Voynich manuscripts strange text. Of them, Professor Stephen Bax is perhaps the closest to having a claim to making some progress.